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USER MANUAL HUMAN DUBSTEP

Human Dubstep User Manual

Drums by Alex Morris Produced by James Ting

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About Alex Morris Professional drummer Alex Morris has collaborated with artists around the world, including Asian artists: 蔡依林 (Jolin Tsai), �� (Han Geng) ,� (Faye Chan of F.I.R.), 胡彦斌 (Anson Hu), 尚雯婕 (Laure Shang), �� (Sa Dingding), �� (William Wei), and 崔健 (Cui Jian) � (Xu Wei), as well as appearing alongside Ray Charles alumnus Marcus Belgrave and the jazz great Robin Eubanks.

In 2013 he appeared on the Chinese equivalent of American Idol ( 中国梦之声 ). He leads his own projects in the United States and China. Alex is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he was awarded a Conservatory Initiative Grant Supporting Imagination and Excellence and the Conservatory Dean’s Scholarship for his studies of Jazz and American classical music.

At the age of 26, has performed at the Wembley Arena in London, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Beijing MasterCard Center, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, Le Trianon Concert Hall in Paris, the Taipei Arena, the Worker's Arena in Beijing, the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, the Guangzhou International Sports Arena, the Qintai Concert Hall in Wuhan, the Star Hall in Hongkong, Stadium Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur, as well as many other venues throughout Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia, North Africa, and the United States.

Alex endorses Vater Percussion.




Features

Recording & Sampling:

• 24 bit 48KHz

• 11 drum tracks studio recording

• 9 playing styles

• Tempo from 75-180

• Total 2332 samples

• Total 77 Impulse Response samples

• Size: 1.98 GB

Kontakt Engine Design:

• A real mixing board, as well as a large selection of effects and routing controls.

• 2 Additional controls for the Kick and Snare channels

• Save and Load all mixer settings

• Different sound sets for each kit

• Top quality effect units included: Convolution Reverb, Logix-S EQ, VCA Bus Comp, FATiSH Tape Simulator, and the Transient Doctor.




Main Page The Main page has a similar mike level and panning controls as a true mixing board, in addition to a large choice of effects and routing controls. you'll be able to save and load all mixer settings by using the MIXER SETTING panel at the upper left of the page. As every kit features a very different sound, these mixer presets will solely be used for the kit that they're saved with.




Mixer Controls

▪ The faders on left side of the Main page control the volume level of the various microphones.

▪ Each close mic and mono kit mic has a PAN knob to change the left and right location of that mic in the stereo field.

▪ Each stereo kit mic has a WIDTH knob, ranging from MONO to STEREO. STEREO is the standard setting, where the left and right channels are independent on the left and right sides. As the knob is turned towards MONO, the left and right channels are combined until they become a single central sound source when the knob is turned all the way to the left.

▪ The S and M buttons allow you to solo (S) and mute (M) the individual channels. When a track has the Solo button pressed, all other channels are silent and only the soloed channel can be heard. Putting additional channels into solo mode will add those channels into the mix, but still keep all other channels silent. When the mute button is pressed, the selected track can no longer be heard. Mute has a higher “ranking” than solo, so if a track has both buttons pressed, the track will be muted.

▪ The SEND knob at the top of each channel controls the amount of reverb effect to be included in the mix for that channel. The global reverb level is adjusted with the reverb fader on the right side of the mixer.

DIRECT CLOSE MICS Area

The DIRECT CLOSE MICS area takes up the left portion of the Mixer page. As the name suggests, this area contains the channel controls for the direct close microphones. There are close microphones for the kick, snare, hi-hat, toms, and some percussion.




REVERB / MASTER Area

The right portion of the Mixer page displays the controls for Reverb / Master channel which used to adjust the levels of the master output, master panning and reverb return level.

You can also switch the left and right position of the master out with the L↔R button on the MASTER channel. All channels are labeled at the bottom, and the labels are high- lighted when editing the channels.

Effects

Ultra top quality effects are included, specifically tailored for drum production. These effects are Convolution Reverb, Logix-S EQ, VCA Bus Comp, FATiSH Tape Simulator, and the Transient Doctor. Each of these effects can be turned on or off for any of the channels by clicking on the Orange LED next to each effect name at the bottom of the page.

Convolution Reverb

Convolution Reverb effect

The Convolution Reverb includes many impulse samples of some of the classic gears and acoustic spaces for drum production.




To select an acoustic space, click on the Reverb channel. The various spaces will then appear at the bottom of the screen.

To shift the selection over to reveal more room types, click on the room images to the right and left of the selected image.

To select the room type, click on the drop-down menu above the selected room image. The drop-down menu below the room image allows you to select a specific room preset within that room type.

To adjust the overall level of the reverb, move the fader on the Reverb channel. The amount of reverb in each channel is adjusted with the SEND knobs at the top of each microphone channel.

Logix-S EQ

Logix-S EQ effect

The Logix-S EQ is a very musical EQ with four frequency ranges can be adjusted with high precision.

▪ The Hz/KHz knobs set the center frequency that is being adjusted with the EQ.

▪ For the two mid frequency ranges, there are Q knobs to adjust the width of the bell curve for the adjusted frequency range.




▪ The Gain knobs adjust the gain boost or gain reduction of the selected frequencies.

▪ The low and the high frequencies can switch between bell curve and shelf modes by clicking on the BELL button.

▪ The OUTPUT knob on the right side adjusts the effect unit output level.

VCA Bus Comp

VCA BUS Comp effect

This is a virtual reproduction of a legendary compressor adds presence and drive to your drums without blurring the detail.

▪ The ATTACK knob adjusts the amount of time in milliseconds that it takes for the compressor to reach the ratio after the input signal exceeds the threshold level.

▪ The RELEASE knob adjusts the amount of time in milliseconds that the compressor will take to stop affecting the sound after the input signal falls below the threshold.

▪ The THRESHOLD knob adjusts the level in dB that the input signal must exceed before the compressor starts affecting the sound.




▪ The RATIO knob controls the amount of compression expressed as a ratio of “input level” to “output level change”. The higher the RATIO knob is set, the more the output level will be reduced as the sound goes beyond the threshold.

▪ The MIX knob allows you to add the dry signal to the mix as well, for a parallel compression sound.

▪ The MAKEUP knob allows you to increase the overall output level of the compressed sound.

▪ The OUTPUT knob on the right side adjusts the overall output level.

FATiSH Tape Emulator

FATiSH Tape Emulator effect

The FATiSH Tape Emulator adds the fat warm sound that comes from an analog tape machine.

▪ The WARMTH knob manipulates the frequencies of the audio to give a “warming” tone to the sound.

▪ The GAIN knob adjusts the amount that the input signal is boosted with the saturated sound.




▪ The HF knob takes away the highest frequencies in a similar way that analog tape rolls off those high frequencies.


Transient Doctor

Transient Doctor effect

The Transient Doctor can subtly or drastically change the shape of the drum sound, depending on how you want to use it.

▪ The INPUT knob adjusts the level of the input signal going into the effect.

▪ The ATTACK knob adjusts the level of the attack of the signal.

▪ The SUSTAIN knob adjusts how long the sound will ring out, which can effectively sound like changing the dampening or the size of the various drums, or even changing the size of the room that the drums are in.





Channel Settings

Channel Settings view for the Kick Drum

Each channel has its own settings for effect routing and channel output routing.

▪ In the FX ROUTING area, there are four different effect routing presets to choose from. These change the order of which effect comes before the other, depending on your preference in a mix (for example, some engineers prefer to use EQ before compression, while others prefer to use it after compression). The signal chain of the effects goes from left to right according to the image, and you can step through the different order presets using the right and left arrows.

▪ The OUTPUT ASSIGN area gives a drop-down menu to select which output that channel will be routed to. Please note that the channel outputs must first be setup in KONTAKT before being able to route them here.

Additional Kick and Snare Controls

For the Kick close mic, there is an additional area on the left where you can adjust the separate levels of the Direct In mic (placed inside the kick drum pointing towards the front head), the Direct Out mic (placed a short distance outside of the kick drum) .

For the Snare close mic, there is an additional area on the left where you can adjust the separate levels of the Direct Top mic (placed over the snare drum pointing down), the Di- rect Bottom mic (placed under the snare drum pointing up).




Thanks, and Enjoy! We are having a great time producing this library and I really hope you enjoy it. If you

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